ONE ROOM CHALLENGE FALL 2018 | OFFICE MAKEOVER: FINAL REVEAL

It's that time, reveal day! If you've been following along with the One Room Challenge here on my blog, then you know for the past 6 weeks, we've participated by renovating our upstairs bedroom, better known as my office. This room started out as basically just a storage space. It had cheap linoleum, a very uneven ceiling with peeling plaster, and random texture all over the walls.

Let's throw it back to the before!

Before

While we were restoring our wood floors in our laundry room, and had the drum sander rented for the weekend, we went ahead and tackled these floors too. We had already budgeted for the sander rental in our laundry reno, so this room was technically free!

Because our walls had a bad plaster job, and some texture randomly, I decided on a paintable beadboard wallpaper. I found one here for $.33 a square foot! If you've ever wallpapered, you know this is UNHEARD of at that price! I ordered 300 sq. feet and my total came in right at $100 for the whole room.

It was my first time wallpapering but because this was pre-pasted, all I had to do was cut to size, soak it in water for a few minutes, and hang. Our plan was to hang trim along the ceiling to hide my shiplap edges, and the edges of my wallpaper so I really didn't worry about perfection there.

You can see how the tung oil doesn't necessarily change the floor's color, but just brings it to life by giving it a rich, warm tone and highlighting it's patina. The floors were so dry that the single coat of oil soaked in super quick. Therefore I'll want to go back over it and add a few more coats to ensure the floor is properly protected and moisturized.